Ja sladké túžby, túžby po kráse

 básnik sa znova a znova podujíma na to najľudskejšie 

[foxboysupremacy]

carrd • requests always open • personal blog <3 

majoring in viticulture culinary ancient world and going to med school (physician assistant <3). nobody is deranged like I am <3 talk to me abt any of those anytime 

also dni if you don’t believe in the one true graha ship (graha and koslech) because separating soulmates like that is toxic. you can try to fight me on this but you won’t win 💞

[wormbus-art]

It's been a year and we're still here

[jermaine-main]

[kleefkruid]

hate how this 1) manages to make fun of Belgium without bothering to mention us 2) every single person in the notes knows this 3) it's true

[triple-fisting]

[foxboysupremacy]

I wasn't trying to be stupidly racist I'm genuinely confused. This is the first I'm hearing of any of thus, I'm from Czech Republic and English isn't my first language

Ok, ale prečo by ma to malo zaujímať? Prečítajte si niektoré, pomôže vám to—Si biely a chránený.

My Slovak is bad, excuse that, but like. I understand you’re confused but my friend there has made posts to explain why. It’s racist in the show because they are using cultural traits of a culture that is discriminated against and seen as “violent brown people” to “display” the Nie’s supposed aggressiveness. By making them look more central Asian, they play into stereotypes about the region. For a czech example, it’s exactly like when people cosplay/use Romani culture to be more “sneaky”, which is racist.

And my Slovak comment—it does nothing for you to explain yourself to me, tbh, you make yourself feel more guilty. I’d honestly recommend reading and study instead, so you can develop more of a knowledge base on this topic. It’s good you’re interested in correcting/learning why, it’s a good trait. You deserve to give yourself the time and space to learn what Česko will not. There’s recommended reading if you need online.

[dapurinthos]

Even the smallest of words, like “even” (“per” in Greek), can create enormously consequential interpretive challenges for the translator. In Book 24 of the “Iliad,” the goddess Thetis visits her mortal son, Achilles, who is prostrate with grief for his dead friend, Patroclus. Achilles is still dragging the corpse of Patroclus’s killer, Hector, around the city walls every day, and still refusing to eat, drink or have sex — the normal activities of mortals. The goddess asks her son how long he will “devour” his heart with grief, rather than eating normal bread, and she reminds him that it is also good to have sex, or more literally (as I render it) to “join in love” — “even with a woman.” On the most linguistically straightforward reading, the phrase suggests that his mother thinks Achilles would prefer to join with someone other than a woman — such as Patroclus, his beloved dead friend. This may be a surprise, given that earlier in “The Iliad,” the two men were described as sharing their beds with enslaved women, and they are never described by Homer as having sex with each other — although by the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., readers such as Aeschylus and Plato certainly assumed that they were lovers. Is Thetis suddenly “outing” her son? Or is she simply acknowledging the depth of his desire to be with his dead companion? Translators sometimes leave the word out entirely (Fagles: “It’s a welcome thing to make love with a woman”) or apply the emphasis to the activity, not the partner (Lattimore: “even to lie with a woman”; Caroline Alexander, “Indeed, it is good to lie with a woman”) — although this is not a natural reading of the Greek word order. I do not think it is generally the translator’s job to correct or fight against the text; hence my decision to settle on the simple “even with a woman.” Readers can decide for themselves whether Achilles is yearning to “join” Patroclus in a sexual sense or to mingle with his dear ashes in the tomb.

- Emily Wilson on 5 crucial decisions she made in her ‘Iliad’ translation (link goes to the archive.ph version of the original washington post article due to its paywall)

[captainkaltar]

Classics nerds, how were you first introduced to Greek mythology?

A book of myth retellings

A different kind of book (i.e. the Percy Jackson novels)

School (a school play, a college course, etc.)

A movie or tv show

A video game

Something online (a webcomic, a fanfic, etc.)

A friend or family member

Can’t remember

Other (tell me in the tags please!)

Voting ended onSep 23, 2023

I got a mythology book from the library when I was about 6 and I’ve never been the same since then

[captainkaltar]

Tell me your introduction to Greek myths in the tags!!

[rherlotshadow]

Streptocarpus - the Cape Primrose - and stained glass

[roadhogsbigbelly]

how are christians homophobic when theres yaoi in the bible.

[roadhogsbigbelly]

jesus should of caught the spit in his mouth and swallowed.

[the-lyndelle-edit]

[pocketkris]

ok you headcanon this man as trans but are you normal about his transness

[pocketkris]

do you treat him like a grown man or do you treat him like an uwu soft baby boy.

[pocketkris]

alternatively. do you headcanon this "uwu soft boy" as trans and why do you headcanon that

[chilewithcarnage]

i like how most people's response to the horrors of the modern food and agriculture industry under late stage capitalism and colonialism is not 'industry reform so that companies aren't using literal slave labor and that the people who work the fields and pack the food for these companies make livable wages and don't have to spend 18 hours of their days packing produce and being exposed pesticides and extreme temperatures and unsafe factories with no bathroom breaks' and instead is 'lol just grow your own food 🤪'

[taahko]

every so often im struck by the memory of one of my college professors getting very angry with our class (art history of pompeii 250) because when she excitedly detailed the ingenious roman invention of heated floors in bathhouses via hearths in small crawlspaces, we asked who was tending the fires. she said "oh, slaves i suppose. but that isnt the point". and we said that it actually very much was the point. she had just told us that in roman society there were dozens of people, maybe hundreds, who spent every day of their enslaved lives crawling in cramped, hot, smoky tunnels to light fires to warm pools of water (which they were not allowed to swim in). how could that not be the point?

she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors. and she didn't know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.

it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors. all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.

the people who run these systems want you to focus on the good - who doesnt love warm water? - but if anything is going to improve or change in our lifetimes, you need to examine these things with an attentive, critical, and empathetic eye. and for fucks sake stop ordering from amazon

[starsteel-absol]

i am simply a creature of habit

[foxboysupremacy]

TAGGING ASTARION WITH THE PREMINGER EDIT ?

am I wrong? am I?

[anotherpapercut]

genuinely it will never stop baffling me how people will wear twilight shirts and talk about team Edward vs team Jacob and then the same people will be like "I'm not basing my personality off of a piece of media (harry potter) made by a transphobe 😌" like good that's great! so you can excuse racism but you draw the line at transphobia? good to know

[anotherpapercut]

I just think it's really funny how posts about how if you still own a Harry Potter coloring page you made at age 9 you're a transphobe get 60k notes and are reposted to Instagram Facebook and tik tok but posts about how Stephanie Meyer used real native american people as props in her unbelievably bad stories die out after maybe a few hundred. anyway why don't you guys go look at the Quileute tribes actual history and culture as presented on their website

[anotherpapercut]

!! ur absolutely right I had forgotten about that!

looks like they successfully completed the relocation of their school last year despite receiving none of that twilight money and are going to be moving on to the next phase so if you've ever given your money to Stephanie Meyer check out their website and consider helping them out

[catnippackets]

do any of you ever reach a point in your hyperfixation where you like it so much that you start feeling like you actually can't interact with it because of how much you like it. does that make any sense at all. like the idea of watching the show becomes unappealing not because your love for it is flagging but because you feel like you don't have the strength that day to contain your own excitement about it so you have to wait for a day where you don't feel so wholly consumed it makes you sick

[reachingforclouds]